What doesn't Carol Browner want us to know about her zealously activist reign at the Environmental Protection Agency? Six months ago, on her last day in office, Bill Clinton's former eco-chief oversaw the destruction of her computer files -- in clear violation of a...
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How CNN Creates The News
How many families do you know that live in a "compound"? My dictionary defines a compound as "an enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war." But in the liberal media handbook, "compound" means any dwelling where God and guns are present. It's a loaded word...
The Mail Monopoly
The U.S. Postal Service has raised its rates twice this year and is already talking about raising rates again next year. It has also made noises about eliminating Saturday mail deliveries. But the big problem with the Postal Service is not any of these particular...
In Defense of Ballot Initiatives
In the two-year political cycle that culminated on Election Day 2000, some 350 initiative petitions were submitted to election officials in the 24 states that permit laws to be passed at the ballot box. Of those 350, only 76 made it onto the ballot. And of those 76,...
Why Was Elian Gonzalez Less Worthy Than Giselle Cordova?
Fidel Castro's recent collapse was caught on television, where the 74-year-old dictator's security guards could be heard exclaiming: "Aguantalo, rapido!" The phrase, which means "Hold him up, quickly!" captures the essence of the dictator's numbered days -- a...
In Praise of Hard Work
Why don't they preach what they practice?Non-conservatives dominate the mainstream media. In the media magazine Content, a poll showed that nearly 75 percent of Republicans found a liberal bias in the media, while nearly 50 percent of Democrats found the press "more...
Intended Consequences
Over the years, the phrase "unintended consequences" has come up with increasing frequency, as more and more wonderful-sounding ideas have led to disastrous results. By now, you might think that people with wonderful-sounding ideas would start to question what the...
China’s Olympic Sized Victory
Picture this: Beneath a towering portrait of Chairman Mao, brutal Chinese dictators bask in the warm glow of international good will as the world's top volleyball players romp across imported sand spread over Tiananmen Square -- the same bloodied site where government...
The Child Manipulators
On Friday (June 29, 2001), ABC news correspondent John Stossel aired a hard-hitting report challenging the environmentalist movement and suggesting that "tampering with nature" makes human life better -- that such "unnatural" phenomena as clean water, heated homes and...
Charting the Market: The Past 25 Years
Ever since I started trading and investing in the 1970s I have looked at stock charts every day. I am entirely aware of -- and respectful of -- the empirical and theoretical arguments against the predictive value of charting. And yet, at the same time, I remain to...
Guns, Kids, and Condoms
Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage.That's what a new review of sex-ed curricula claims. "The overwhelming weight of evidence shows that sex education that...
Kissing and Coddling China’s Dictators
Our ruined EP-3 surveillance plane is still parked on that Chinese runway, months after it was forced down and its crew taken hostage. At least six Chinese-American scholars have been jailed in China on groundless spying charges; their families have not been allowed...
Are Energy Suppliers Ripping of California?
Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? California Attorney General Bill Lockyer apparently missed that lesson in law school. As Californians face rolling blackouts in the grip of their so-called energy crisis, the state's top politicians busy themselves...
Economic Liberty 101: A Crash Course for California’s Governor Gary Davis
Now that President George W. Bush and California Governor Gray Davis have had their meeting over the electricity crisis in the golden state, how much closer are they to producing a solution? Not one millimeter closer. Nor was there any reason to expect that they would...
July 4th: Love it or Lose It
We have belatedly come to appreciate "the greatest generation" that fought and died in World War II to preserve the freedom that Americans enjoy today. But the disappearance of history from our schools, and its virtual disappearance as a requirement for graduation...
The Rule of Law in America
What should be the characteristics of laws in a free society? Let's think about baseball rules (laws) as a means to approach this question. Some players, through no fault of their own, hit fewer home runs than others. In order to create baseball justice, how about a...
Ignorance or Contempt of the U.S. Constitution
Congressmen, presidents and Supreme Court justices take an oath of office swearing to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. As if the Constitution itself isn't clear about what they must do, in Federalist Paper No. 45, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the...
California’s Philosophical Blackout
With the arrival of summer's sweltering heat, California's electricity demand will rise as people engage in the perfectly natural act of manipulating the environment, as through air-conditioning, to make life better. But electricity supply will not be able to rise the...
Point of Disorder
What to make of this completely crazed market? It's simple (but that doesn't make it any more bearable): we're right on a major cusp. Four critical indices -- the NASDAQ Composite, the Russell 2000, the Wilshire Total Market Value Index, and the S&P 500, are all...
Housing and Overpopulation: Shocked by the Obvious
The obvious makes headlines in California. Maybe this shows that a sense of reality or common sense is not something that can be taken for granted among Californians. A recent headline stretching across the top of the front page announced that "Population dwarfs...
Socialized Medicine in 10 Easy Steps
Republicans have never been big fans of reforming the health insurance system, nor have many of them ever taken the time to learn much about it. Of course, that won't be a surprise to anyone who has watched Republicans pass one bad piece of health care legislation...
The Essence Of Inspiration
Every expression that appeals to man's highest ideals is a source of inspiration. It is the quick route that bridges a man's emotions to his thoughts and reveals his innermost soul through his responses. The importance of inspiration for human life is based on the...
“Buying Nothing” Helps No One
While most Americans celebrated their blessings, both material and spiritual, on Thanksgiving last year, the anti-consumer movement united to celebrate Buy Nothing Day. They called for a boycott of shopping, buying . . . indeed, consumption itself. Adbusters, an...
Harry Potter and the Dragon of Health Care
A mature Harry Potter has traveled through the Outerland, to the banks of the Hogwash. From here he can see his final destination: the Ministry of the Village. The Villages' inhabitants, known as Republocrats, are faceless mutations of an old two-party political...
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